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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon brass were outraged last year when the Dravo Corp. persuaded Congress to award it up to $10 million in extra payments on a disputed Navy contract. Although Dravo had agreed to build a steam plant at the Navy's Norfolk, Va., shipyard under a $102.9 million fixed-price contract, Congress ordered the service to pay for Dravo's cost overruns. Navy paymasters stalled until the 1987 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Now, they discover, Dravo is back again. Just passed by the House Appropriations Committee, the 1988 Defense Department budget includes the same $10 million bailout. "Greed is still...
Dravo, which lost nearly $25 million on the project, is also suing seven subcontractors to recover these same cost overruns. The troubled firm says it will get out of the steam plant-building business altogether...
...lion had eaten a whole cow next to me while I lay sleeping." He looks at his students and instructors, then out across the dry landscape. "Over 223 million acres have suffered from severe desertification, and more are threatened," he says. "Deteriorating grasslands create all sorts of problems. Plant species die out; erosion occurs; watersheds dry up; animals, birds and insects go elsewhere because there's nothing to eat, and so the earth is no longer replenished by their nutrients...
Prior to 1985, Lashman served as Director of External Projects. His major accomplishments included the development of the communityopposed Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) and the Mission Park Housing Project at the Medical School...
Even people who opposed his work in the development of MATEP, an energy plant opposed by the community around it because of pollution fears, said that Lashman was very efficient. "He's a very formidable adversary," said Lou Horowitz, a community representative in Brookline's fight to stop the plant from going on line. "I have to admire the efficiency with which he overcame a number of obstacles. He used his resources well...